"I of my own knowledge…"

People — many people — had sent me links to Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk about her Stroke of Insight, but until I moved to an area with access to high-speed internet, I was unable to see it.

This talk, one of so many life-transforming TED talks, may be found at http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

The Cosmic Internet: Explanations from the other side is a book like no other I have read. It changed my life and my way of living in the world. From exploring the essence of human existence to redefining reality — it is all in this book. Frank DeMarco communicates with intelligences from the other side of the veil we call death, brings back amazing and unique information — and sets it down in a very clear very usable fashion. Displaying a unique ability to explain aspects of the cosmos which usually defy definition, he shows that any of us can step up to higher levels of consciousness. Have you always felt that existence had much more to offer you and that you want to expand your potential? This is the book to read.

Michael Peter Langevin, former publisher of “Magical Blend” magazine

Author of “Spiritual Business and “The Secrets of the Ancient Incas”

For other quotes, and to see the cover in full color, and to order from Amazon, go here:

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This is from an interview of CG Jung by Georg Gerster conducted on June 7, 1960, for broadcast on the Swiss radio network. As it happened, the interview took place on the first day of Jung’s final year. He would die June 6, 1961.

It contains so much of substance! At least three statements of his might be the basis for an entire essay:

1) “vitally necessary things have become obsolete”

2) “the very idea that you should begin with yourself, that is totally out of the question”

3) “taking yourself seriously is considered improper”

This interview is to be found in the book CG Jung speaking.

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I haven’t forgotten that the over-arching question underlying this blog is, “What is the meaning of life?” Although it may seem sometimes as if the matters I pursue here are merely of personal interest, I suggest that the underlying question is always there, and is important to us all, at one level or another.

This particular entry was written while I was visiting England four years ago. I had just bought and read Michael Reynolds’ The Young Hemingway.

This entry begins with my addressing Hemingway and ends with the guys on the other end of the line prodding me to do something I was reluctant to undertake. (Exposing my own shortcomings may be a way to make real what otherwise might remain only abstraction. Consider it my gift to you.) I feel like the writing and publication of The Cosmic Internet is partial fulfillment of this commitment.

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Another piece that I have been sitting on for some while, too good to throw away, too removed from topicality to make it to the top of the pile. From the Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275574/Babies-know-difference-good-evil-months-study-reveals.html

Babies know the difference between good and evil at six months, study reveals

By DAVID DERBYSHIRE

At the age of six months babies can barely sit up – let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk.

But, according to psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code – and can tell the difference between good and evil.

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“Frank DeMarco’s book, The Cosmic Internet, masterfully written from firsthand experience, asks the hard questions about life both here and in the hereafter. It provides thought-provoking insight into questions that have long needed addressing. I do not say this lightly, as this book made me pause and reflect deeply upon many things, answering questions I had not even thought about asking. The Cosmic Internet is quite possibly the most interesting book I have ever read.”
–Robert Bruce, author of Astral Dynamics –

For other quotes, and to see the cover in full color, and to order from Amazon, go here:

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I’ve been sitting on this for a while, mostly because it got lost in my files. It appeared in the SchwartzReport for July 17, 2010, but it is no less relevant today, and will be no less relevant next years. Things change slowly, in certain directions. Nonetheless, regardless who glacially slowly, they do change.

Editor Stephan Schwartz’ comment:

I remember back in the early 1970s, when my two friends, Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins were writing what became the best seller, The Secret Life of Plants, they introduced me to Cleve Backster whose research showed plants had a measure of consciousness. All three of them, Peter Chris, and Cleve were subjected to withering and largely ad hominem criticism, by paradigm constrained biologists and other deniers who simply could not accept that any species other than human beings could have conscious awareness.

Plants ‘Can Think And Remember’

VICTORIA GILL, Science Reporter – BBC News (U.K.)

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

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Today (Saturday, June 18, 2011) I had the pleasure of speaking about “The Cosmic Internet” to about 40 people of the Central Virginia chapter of Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Richmond.

My friends Dave Garland and Linda Rogers accompanied me and staffed a table offering  my six books for sale, and in general offered  moral support. In fact, Dave drove, and also recorded the talk. (Then, following the talk, we drove them to The Monroe Institute to begin a residential program.)

As I say, it was a pleasure, because it is always a pleasure to speak about something you care deeply about, to an intelligent audience that also cares about such things.

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Ever since I appeared on Coast to Coast AM on June 1, I have been looking in at Amazon to see the size and duration of any boost in sales attributable to the show. I’m interested not only in The Cosmic Internet, but my earlier books, as well: The Sphere and the Hologram, Muddy Tracks, Babe in the Woods, and Messenger. (A sixth book, Chasing Smallwood, isn’t listed with Amazon.)

As you no doubt know, the lower the number, the better a book is selling. As I learned years ago when I was with Hampton Roads, though, the fact that a book falls even hundreds of thousands in the rankings doesn’t mean you sold more than a couple of books! Anyway, it’s sort of fascinating to watch. One thing, clearly, that one appearance gave a strong boost to my other books.

”Frank DeMarco is an adventurer of the intellect and of the spirit. He challenges our definitions of reality with compassionate, down-to-earth writing. If this is mysticism, it’s a singularly practical mysticism.”

– Michael Ventura, author of The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God

For other quotes, and to see the cover in full color, and to order from Amazon, go here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_19?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+cosmic+internet&sprefix=the+cosmic+internet